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In this novel, a man puts bells on his ankles to disguise himself as one of the red-robed men whose cart he uses to escape a mob yelling “Get the anointer!” A governess’s role in rewriting this novel into a dialect that became its language’s written standard is recounted in a book titled for its author’s family, written by the author of Family Lexicon. The phrase “the unfortunate woman replied” comes from this novel’s digression (-5[1])on the seduced nun Gretchen. (10[1])In this novel, a silk weaver finds loaves lying on the ground (-5[1])after fleeing his mountain home and arriving in a city during a bread riot. (10[1]-5[1])The female protagonist of this novel is freed from a castle after (10[1])the conversion of the Unnamed. (10[2])A famine (10[1])and a plague (10[1])occur in this novel, in which Don Rodrigo schemes to seize (10[2]-5[1])Renzo’s beloved (10[2])Lucia. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this magnum opus of Alessandro Manzoni. (10[5])■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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